My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight?

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day.